How should the UK hungry be helped?

[JRCT]

Move home without any money or a car?

See, that one comment illustrates the reason why this country is in the mess it's in.

Yes, move house without a car. For God's sake, man.

[SueEllen]

See, that one comment illustrates the reason why this country is in the mess it's in.

Yes, move house without a car. For God's sake, man.

How do you move without any money?

Even if you don't have a car and can fit all your stuff into a couple of suitcases, how are you going to pay for the transport?

[VectraMan]

How do you move without any money?

Even if you don't have a car and can fit all your stuff into a couple of suitcases, how are you going to pay for the transport?

But strangely in the good/bad old days many people would manage to move to where the work was, why is it so difficult today?

I remember watching a documentary on the Hoover Dam, and as soon as they announced it thousands of people turned up hoping for jobs. Unfortunately construction didn't start for another year, and those people had a pretty miserable time trying to survive in what was essentially desert. Not good, but shows the lengths some people will go to.

[JRCT]

How do you move without any money?

Even if you don't have a car and can fit all your stuff into a couple of suitcases, how are you going to pay for the transport?

Well, let's all just shoot ourselves then, eh?

Nobody has NO money. Not in the UK. That is a fact. If we keep making allowances for people like this, then they'll take them.

[SueEllen]

But strangely in the good/bad old days many people would manage to move to where the work was, why is it so difficult today?

I remember watching a documentary on the Hoover Dam, and as soon as they announced it thousands of people turned up hoping for jobs. Unfortunately construction didn't start for another year, and those people had a pretty miserable time trying to survive in what was essentially desert. Not good, but shows the lengths some people will go to.

People do move today for jobs.

For example migrants from Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. However I don't want have to keep stepping over people sleeping on the street.

[mudskipper]

It isn't as simple as it sounds.

Moving for a low paid, insecure job isn't practical. Landlords charge huge deposits (which you unlikely to get all back). Moving itself costs money. If you've got school age children, you're likely to need new uniforms and all that stuff, even ignoring the disruption to education etc.

Worth it for a well paid job, or a job that's likely to see you through the next 10 years, but not for something that's probably not going to pay the bills and likely to see you repeating the process in another 6 months.

That's the difference between jobs in the 'old days' and jobs today.

[NickyBoy]

But strangely in the good/bad old days many people would manage to move to where the work was, why is it so difficult today?

I remember watching a documentary on the Hoover Dam, and as soon as they announced it thousands of people turned up hoping for jobs. Unfortunately construction didn't start for another year, and those people had a pretty miserable time trying to survive in what was essentially desert. Not good, but shows the lengths some people will go to.

People who moved for work slowly dying in a desert isn't really a 'pro moving' argument.

[scooterscot]

In my village they run one bus a day out and one bus a day in ...

So you think I should toughen up and sleep rough a couple of nights a week? Or just buy a car?

If I choose to in the African Savannah should I give up my private jet to fly into London every day?

Move house or change job!! I thought England was connected, there's more buses going in and out Western Isle to the mainland on a daily basis.

[d000hg]

If I choose to in the African Savannah should I give up my private jet to fly into London every day?

If you happen into poverty to be born in the African Savannah to a family who have lived in the same area for generations, you're going to move to London how?

[scooterscot]

If you happen into poverty to be born in the African Savannah to a family who have lived in the same area for generations, you're going to move to London how?

Because being born in Africa = poverty.

Bob is that you?